Kirk Sigler
speaker
510 appearances
72 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 9 Sep
Kirk Sigler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Emergency crews used a school bus to evacuate people like Catherine Randall from the small town of Huntington along the Snake River to a makeshift Red Cross shelter.
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The Fox Fire near Huntington is one of five large-range fires burning along the Oregon-Idaho state line alone, chewing through tinder-dry rangeland and sagebrush.
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Ranchers are scrambling to move cows and are worried whether there'll be any grass left by summer's end.
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Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Ontario, Oregon.
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It's NPR.
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The wildfires have closed highways across central and eastern Oregon, including stretches of Interstate 84 that links Boise, Idaho to Portland, Oregon.
Most are burning in remote federal rangeland and on private ranches and are causing major headaches for ranchers who are having to move cattle away from the flames with sometimes no warning.
Oregon is coming off its driest and warmest winter on record with very little snowpack and now extremely dry fuels, including invasive grasses.
The governor has declared states of emergency in multiple counties, and the state is now considered the top federal firefighting priority in the country.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Boise.
The wildfires have closed highways across central and eastern Oregon, including stretches of Interstate 84 that links Boise, Idaho to Portland, Oregon.
Most are burning in remote federal rangeland and on private ranches and are causing major headaches for ranchers who are having to move cattle away from the flames with sometimes no warning.
Oregon is coming off its driest and warmest winter on record with very little snowpack and now extremely dry fuels, including invasive grasses.
The governor has declared states of emergency in multiple counties, and the state is now considered the top federal firefighting priority in the country.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Boise.
The Interior Department identified the fourth firefighter fatality, 43-year-old Nathan Matthews of Lincoln, Nebraska.
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He and the other crew members were on a hell attack team where a chopper drops firefighters into remote forests where new ignitions have started when they were engulfed in flames with no escape route.
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Three other firefighters, Emily Barker, Nick Hutcherson, and Sidney Watson, died at the scene June 27th.
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This all comes as the job of wildland firefighting is becoming increasingly dangerous, with prolonged heat waves and drought due to climate change, and more than a century of suppressing wildfires has also created a dangerous buildup of fuels and forests.
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Kirk Ziegler, NPR News, Boise.
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